anna8506 wrote:On hold! That's not a decision!! Or it is a fancy way of saying waitlist.

Hold means they want more info. They'll give you the chance to make your case that they are your (or to a lesser extent one of your) top choice(s). As one poster wrote recently, NU likes to see applicants show a willingness to jump through their hoops.

anna8506 wrote:On hold! That's not a decision!! Or it is a fancy way of saying waitlist.

Hold means they want more info. They'll give you the chance to make your case that they are your (or to a lesser extent one of your) top choice(s). As one poster wrote recently, NU likes to see applicants show a willingness to jump through their hoops.

Posted this during the last big hold wave, but this is how the holds was explained to me before:

Accept: they want youHold: they think they want you, but they want to take a look at the applicant pool. WL: they might want you, but there is for sure an entire class, that they will fill, whom they would rather have (unless YP)Deny: they just plain don't want you

scoobers wrote:Posted this during the last big hold wave, but this is how the holds was explained to me before:

Accept: they want youHold: they think they want you, but they want to take a look at the applicant pool. WL: they might want you, but there is for sure an entire class, that they will fill, whom they would rather have (unless YP)Deny: they just plain don't want you